Memorial Stadium, the home of Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, is located in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus in downtown Lincoln. The stadium holds the continuing NCAA-record consecutive sellout streak that reached 300-game milestone on September 26, 2009. The stadium, designed by John Latenser, Sr., was dedicated in on October 20, 1923. After numerous expansion projects, the seating capacity of the Stadium reached 80,000 mark on 2006 with a single-game attendance mark of 86,304 set on 2009.

Inscriptions by Hartley Burr Alexander, a former professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln also responsible for inconography in Kansas City City Hall, Rockefeller Center, and Nebraska State Capitol , can be found on the four corners of the stadium.

SE - "In Commemoration of the men of Nebraska who served and fell in the Nation's Wars."
SW - "Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game; In the deed the glory."
NW - "Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."
NE - "Their Lives they held their country's trust; They kept its faith; They died its heroes.”

Additionally, “THROUGH THESE GATES PASS THE GREATEST FANS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL” was inscribed in the eastern façade of Memorial Stadium.